“When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.” IfsHumansLooksRealityEyeRememberHuman BeingsForgetHalfHappenedNormalBottomImaginaryAdmirableImaginary Life Book:Polgara the Sorceress Source: Polgara the Sorceress
“From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council.” CountryWaitingHalfImpossibleCenturySecurityNormalIsraelImpossibilityCouncilNothing Is ImpossibleSecurity CouncilHalf A Century Author:Dan Gillerman
“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!” PeopleShouldStillsTwoMightRunningLinesAnimalHalfUnited StatesStreetsEventsConversationNormalAmbitionEnglandFortuneSurpriseClimateSizeExtremesAccidentsDrawingFranceHolocaustElephantsExaggerationCartsSurprise MeTrams Author:Elinor Glyn
“I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, its just another normal.” PeopleThinkingWould BeCommunityHalfBrotherGayMembersNormalPrejudiceLgbtSay AnythingCousinAbnormalGay MenHypocriticalLgbt Community Author:Lea Salonga
“As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.” ShouldBelieveEnoughGovernmentRunningI BelieveSimpleHalfNormalShould HaveAverageLibertarianDullFederal GovernmentEquations Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long.” NeedsFeelsKindLongBigsFeltSpaceHalfFeetDesignNormalComfortableSizeWideShootingKitchenDancerBalletWombBallet Dancer Author:Guy Maddin
“Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.” ThinkingWayFirstsMomentsTodayAbleChallengesHalfMinesNormalUniqueCommitmentChaosBackgroundsMidstRelativeI Have LearnedTriggersWay Of ThinkingDefaultCognitivePremature Author:Romany Malco
“We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.” PeopleIfsYearsTwoWarStatesWholeJobsHalfTalkingCasesSupportNormalArmyInstitutionsReactionsTwo YearsSyriaSectsDisintegration Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.” PeopleThinkingHumansStillsCharacterStoriesProblemIndividualSpaceHalfKnownFourFeetHugeNormalSixStandingFascinatingStorytellerFrustratingJohnsonFormidableIrritatingSpace Between Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so." "It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.” KnowsWellsMayMeanLightEyeGirlLinesBrainHalfKnow HowStupidOughtAmountBalanceNormalAccountsSpeciesBeesHer EyesMaintainingProvisionAllowanceBlokes Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“Hellooo.” I held out my arm. “An amethyst woman with blue hair is telling you this.” She reached out and scraped her short nails over my arm. I snatched my arm back. “Ow.” Not body makeup.” She frowned and peered at the roots of my hair. “A good die-job or you’ve really got blue hair.” For now,” I said. “I’m half Drow.” She raised an eyebrow. Dark Elves.” Uh-huhhhh.” During the day I look normal, like you.” With an amused look she held up her arm, showing her dark, golden skin. “You’re Kenyan and Puerto Rican?” LooksSaidBodyJobsDiesDarkHalfLike YouHairArmsNormalRootsSkinsBlueRaisedGoldenMakeupNailsEyebrowsAmusedAmethystBlue Hair Author:Cheyenne McCray
“Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.” TwoWholeFeltHalfWeekOne DayTenNormalSundayWeekendSaturdayDays OffSaturday And Sunday Author:Joshua Ferris
“I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksMeanUsedReadingLevelsHalfSeeingNormalHappeningsFundamentalsUsed To BeFairyTwinsJust BeingBackwards Book:Among Others Source: Among Others
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.” PeopleTryingGivenHalfPovertyBehaviorNormalStandardsOrdinaryMadParisFallenDecentSolitaryGatheringGiven UpEccentricGrooveSlumsGathering Places Book:The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage